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Revenge of the Tipping Point : Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering / Malcolm Gladwell .

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Back Bay Books, 2025Edition: First Back Bay Books paperback editionDescription: xiii, 352 pages : illustrations (balck & white) ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780316581509
LOC classification:
  • G543r 2025
Contents:
Contenidos : Introduction: The passive voice Part One: Three puzzles Casper and C-Dog The trouble with Miami Poplar Grove Part Two: The Social Engineers The magic third The mysterious case of the Harvard women's rugby team Mr. Index and the Marriott outbreak Part Three: The Overstory The L.A. survivor's club Doing time on Maple Drive Part Four: Conclusion Overstories, superspreaders, and group proportions
Summary: Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) G543r 2025 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000200094

Contenidos :
Introduction: The passive voice
Part One: Three puzzles
Casper and C-Dog
The trouble with Miami
Poplar Grove
Part Two: The Social Engineers
The magic third
The mysterious case of the Harvard women's rugby team
Mr. Index and the Marriott outbreak
Part Three: The Overstory
The L.A. survivor's club
Doing time on Maple Drive
Part Four: Conclusion
Overstories, superspreaders, and group proportions

Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.

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